For the 2020 conference Dr. Fimi and I are organising the conference together so I can 'learn the ropes' to take over organising the conference in 2021 (big shoes to fill!). For Tolkien at Leeds IMC 2020 Dr. Fimi and I are very pleased to announce that all 5 sessions on J.R.R. Tolkien that were proposed have been accepted: including three that will focus on the overall theme of this year's conference: borders.
Here are the sessions titles and papers now with the scheduled dates and times.
SESSION 104:
J.R.R. Tolkien: Medieval Roots and Modern Branches
Sponsor: School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
Organiser: Dr. Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar
Moderator/Chair: Deirdre Dawson, Independent Scholar
Session Day/Time: Monday 6 July (11:15-12:45)
A Preliminary History of Deadly Splinters
Victoria Holtz-Wodzak, Viterbo University Wisconsin
Tolkien Alliterative Style in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
Anna Smol, Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia
Dewdrop, Apple and Pomegranate: Three Symbols of the Ring Bearing in Czerniawski's Wyprawa
Joel Merriner, University of Plymouth UK
Foraging for Sources: Sir Orfeo as the Origin of Medieval Romance Topoi Present in Mirkwood
Andoni Cossio, Universidad del Pais Vasco
Session 905:
New Sources and Approaches to Tolkien's Medievalism - A Round Table Discussion
Sponsor: School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
Organiser and Moderator: Dr. Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar
Session Day/Time: Tuesday 7 July (19:00-20:00)
Participants:
Leo Carruthers, Centre d'Etudes Medievales Anglaises (CEMA), Sorbonne Université
Dr. Dimitra Fimi, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
Kristine Larsen, Geological Sciences Department, Central Connecticut State University
Thijs Porck, Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Universiteit Leiden
This roundtable discussion will focus on works by J.R.R. Tolkien published during the last few years, with a particular emphasis on the latest posthumous publication of Tolkien's Lost Chaucer, edited by John M Bowers (Oxford University Press).
SESSION 1536:
Borders in Tolkien's Medievalism I
Sponsor: School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
Organiser: Dr. Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar
Moderator/Chair: Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
Session Day/Time: Thursday 9 July (9:00-10:30)
The Liminality of Tolkien's Non-Human Species
Dr. Andrzej Wicher, Uniwersytet Lodz
Undead of Undying: Limits of Immortality in Tolkien's Work
Gaëlle Abaléa, Sorbonne Université Paris
Implementing the Liminal Space: Vampires and Werewolves
Sara Brown, Independent Scholar
Warrior Maidens, Mounds and Ancestral Swords in LOTR and in the Old Norse Hervarar Saga Jan A. Kozák, University of Bergen, Norway
SESSION 1636:
Borders in Tolkien's Medievalism II
Sponsor: School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
Organiser: Dr. Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar
Moderator/Chair: Sara Brown, Independent Scholar
Session Day/Time: Thursday 9 July (11:15-12:45)
Dr. Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar
Linguistic Borders, Boundaries and Bridges in Tolkien's Writing
Deirdre Dawson, Independent Scholar
Borders of Mind and Nation in Tolkien's Works
Ellen Duncan, Independent Scholar
SESSION 1736:
Borders in Tolkien's Medievalism III
Organiser and Moderator/Chair: Dr. Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar
Session Day/Time: Thursday 9 July (14:15-15:45)
Boundaries and Marches: Marked and Unmarked Edges in Tolkien's Maps
Erik Mueller-Harder, Independent Scholar
The Walls of the World and The Voyage of the Evening Star: The Complex Borders of Medieval Geocentric Cosmology
Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
The Limits of Subcreation
Lars Konzack, Institute for Kommunikation, Copenhagen Universitet
Time-Travel, Astronomy and Magic Mirrors: The Borders between 'Reality' and 'Otherworlds' within Middle-earth
Aurelie Bremont, Sorbonne Université Paris
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